Quotes on Dying

We brought nothing into this world and it's certain we can carry nothing out.

Honey, we all got to go sometime, reason or no reason. Dying's as natural as living. The man who's too afraid to die is too afraid to live.

Has it ever occurred to you that how we deal with death is at least as important as how we deal with life?

Death - to blink for an exceptionally long period of time.

They say we die twice - once when the last breath leaves our body and once when the last person we know says our name.

Now, about that mulatto teacher and me. There was no love there for each other. There was not even respect. We were enemies if anything. He hated me, and I knew it, and he knew I knew it. I didn't like him, but I needed him, needed him to tell me something that none of the others could or would.

A dying man can do nothing easy.

Oh, I am not going to die, am I? He will not separate us, we have been so happy.

This is the last of earth! I am content.

Sing your death song and die like a hero going home.

If you die you're completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I'm not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I've got.

The reality of my life cannot die for I am indestructible consciousness.

The thought of death leaves me in perfect peace, for I have a firm conviction that our spirit is a being of indestructible nature; it works on from eternity to eternity, it is like the sun, which though it seems to set to our mortal eyes, does not really set, but shines on perpetually.

I am not afraid of dying. I have lived longer than most people in the world. What scares me is to have a body that works but a brain that is waving goodbye. If that happens, I hope I die quickly.

In countries where innocent people are dying, the leaders are following their blood rather than their brains.

As a people, we have become obsessed with Health. There is something fundamentally, radically unhealthy about all this. We do not seem to be seeking more exuberance in living as much as staving off failure, putting off dying. We have lost all confidence in the human body.

A person who lives moment to moment, who goes on dying to the past, is never attached to anything. Attachment comes from the accumulated past. If you can be unattached to the past every moment, then you are always fresh, young, just born. You pulsate with life and that pulsation gives you immortality. You are immortal, only unaware of the fact.

I think the dying pray at the last not "please," but "thank you," as a guest thanks his host at the door.

Just like those who are incurably ill, the aged know everything about their dying except exactly when.

I am not afraid of death. I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.